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Dealing with parents when teaching sensitive and controversial issues

This guide aims to help teachers in preventing or reducing tensions with parents when addressing controversial issues in the classroom.
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Published by EuroClio, the guide promotes respectful, sensitive and solution-focused communication strategies. Additionally, it serves as a practical self-reflection tool for schoolteachers to reflect on the way they approach communication with parents. 

The guide outlines three main systematic approaches that might help teachers to handle conflicting parents on different levels: a whole-school approach, a teacher-centred approach and conflict resolution strategies.

 

Additional information

  • Education type:
    School Education
  • Evidence:
    N/A
  • Funding source:
    European Commission
  • Intervention level:
    N/A
  • Intervention intensity:
    N/A
  • Published by:
    EuroClio
  • Target audience:
    Teacher
    Student Teacher
    Head Teacher / Principal
    Teacher Educator
    Researcher
    Parent / Guardian
  • Target audience ISCED:
    Primary education (ISCED 1)
    Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)
    Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
  • Year of publication:
    2023